Game 60: Philadelphia 104, Warriors 97

They closed out the final extended road trip of the season with their most crushing loss, one in which they blew a 16-point lead to a Philadelphia team that had looked lifeless in losing seven straight games before coming back to beat the Warriors 104-97 on Saturday night.

The Warriors (33-27) have lost four consecutive games and 10 of their past 13 to fall five games back of fifth-place Denver. They’re up on seventh-place Utah by ½ game, eighth-place Houston by one game and the ninth-place Lakers by 3 ½ games.

The Warriors host Toronto on Monday in the opener of a seven-game homestand and finish the season with 16 of 22 games at Oracle Arena, where they will need to find some new life after losing nine of their past 10 road games and finishing this road trip 1-5.

Saturday was the worst of the skid, because the Warriors had the 76ers (23-35) on the brink of being blown out, but handed the game to the home team, which was playing without center Andrew Bynum and guard Jason Richardson because of knee injuries.

The Warriors allowed Philadelphia, which hadn’t scored more than 93 points in its past 12 games, to shoot 51.8 percent from the floor and 66.7 percent from three-point range. If the 76ers weren’t knocking down wide-open threes, they were sprinting out for easy transition baskets as the Warriors gifted them 24 points off 20 turnovers.

Klay Thompson hit David Lee for a dunk to tie it 94-94 with 3:40 remaining, but Evan Turner took control from there. He had an offensive rebound and set up Thaddeus Young for a layup and then made back-to-back jumpers for a 100-94 lead with 2:03 remaining.

Turner finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, Jrue Holiday had 27 points, seven assists and five rebounds, and Royal Ivey had a season-high 17 points on a career-high four three-pointers.

As he had done for most of the trip, Stephen Curry tried to carry the Warriors, but he ran out of steam. After going for 23 points on 3-of-4 three-point shooting in the first half, he scored only seven points on 0-of-5 three-point shooting in the second.

Thompson had a bounce-back game, scoring 29 points on 7-of-12 three-point shooting after making just one of his past 13 threes, and Lee added 13 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists.

Curry and Lee orchestrated a 16-4, first-quarter run to give the Warriors a 31-18 lead. During the stretch, Curry had seven points and two assists and Lee added four points and two assists to set the stage for potential big nights.

Curry had 13 points in the first quarter, and Lee finished the free-flowing frame with six points, six rebounds and three assists. The Warriors outscored Philadelphia 9-0 in transition, only four fouls were called, and the 76ers didn’t attempt a free throw during the first quarter.

The Warriors extended their lead to 49-33 in the second quarter, only to watch the advantage nearly evaporate. Philadelphia used a 15-1 run during a 2 ½-minute span to trim the deficit to 50-48 with 2:06 remaining in the half.

Thompson scored the Warriors’ first 13 points of the second half to push their lead to 67-56 with 6:40 remaining in the third quarter. But Philadelphia responded with a 21-8 run during a disastrous stretch of Warriors defense, including an Arnett Moultrie alley-oop that gave the 76ers their first lead of the game – 77-75 with 1:48 left in the third.